EOS is an open-source distributed blockchain operating system with a focus on bringing decentralized applications to the masses. The vision of EOS is that everyday users will, in the near future, be able to run dapps from mobile devices with no specialized knowledge - just as they currently do with apps downloaded from the App Store.

Truth: On-chain governance is an important economic experiment that allows political and social inclusion. EIPs and other offchain governance has lead to a political and social exclusion of stakeholders where a few people really call the shots on the overall direction of the network rather than actual stakeholders. Further, onchain governance allows swift reaction to potentially fatal exploits like the DAO or a swift resolution and return of funds when a bug traps considerable amounts of resources (Parity multisig bug).

Truth: There are various attempts to scale blockchains through parallelism and creating data structures that can relay information to communicate "crosschain" (also called interchain comm).

What's further, these novel attempts for crosschain comm are much more realistic as sharding could potentially lower the security of the chain as clusters are created where each cluster is secured by fewer miners. The superzone is essentially splitted into shards that could potentially be exploited. Sharding has not been proven at scale.

Lastly, sidechains or vertical scaling through sharding or layer2 (Plasma, Loom) do not take into account a multi-chain future where corporate chains run a variety of different systems, different in data structure. (Corda, Hyperledger, EOSIO implementations)

Horizontal scaling ie different EOS implementations for apps could prove to be a much more fruitful endeavor than scaling vertically.

So many projects making their presence known in the business world. Unfortunately what we may need most is time. Hard to be patient with so much uncertainty but with time developments will continue. It's like a race to see who brings a legitimate use case that supplies a demand.

EOSIO v1.5.3 was released on Github four days ago. It provides critical security bug fixes for HTTP API endpoint providers. All HTTP API endpoint providers are advised to update immediately.~EOSIO

ITAM releases an updated version of the EOStock Chrome wallet. New features include EOS account creation, a testnet and custom network, as well as support for login and authentication.~EOStock

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